Those light stands look like some thing a Plumber would put together. Did you pour the concrete base in a container with a pipe in it? An excellent DIY I would paint it black to give it the modern appeal.

Both tanks look fantastic, I only have one concern with your first tank. Its the white substrate I assume it was a pathway in the beginning . Can you syphon the seen section about 5cm back and replace it with the same as the rest of the seen substrate.

The excellent Aquascape in the second tank looks very natural and an original extremely well done.

It took about 2 weeks but we cleared out the ADA 90p and rescaped it with a new hardscape layout that is wayyyy more aggressive than the last. This new main rock is HUGE!!! If we let it stand up straight with no tilt, it would stick out the top of the tank. The plans for now are just a low lawn of a mix of HC, Monte Carlo, and Elatine Hydropiper. We'll also be dry starting this tank since we've had great success with the ADA 45f. Plants will also be added before we fill the tank with water on the plateaus of the rocks to create a layered look thereby creating more depth to the scape itself. Might consider throwing in some e. tenellus micro to break up the rocks a bit when the lawn grows in... we just have to see. The hills in the back will be higher once we get to planting.

Wow it looks amazing! I'm always stunned how people who have been aquascaping for a long time can just instinctually put it together in no time! Although, if I had that big rock... . It has so much character!

Wow it looks amazing! I'm always stunned how people who have been aquascaping for a long time can just instinctually put it together in no time! Although, if I had that big rock... . It has so much character!

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We have tonnnnnsss of the larger size rocks in our backyard haha. We just can't ever settle on one! Let me know if you need any!

We had some free time to do a Quick Scape in one of our empty tanks. Its about a 10g tank with 2 pieces of spider wood and 4 pieces of Ryuoh stone to hold the scape together. It looks really nice and can work for high tech stem plants or low light ferns and anubias/buce. Let us know what you think! the scape took about 20mins to put together.

Here's finally an update on our ADA 45f dry start that closing in on 3 months now. The UG is doing great and we added a second LED stripe thats not shown in the photos to speed up growth which also means more misting. Sorry for the lack of updates on this tank because you'll notice that it's been moved to our dining table where the duel nano used to be. So things like napkins get in the way of the tank for photos.

Hey guys, we're back at it again with another 36CM tank because the lady decided to buy yet another Betta which I don't mind at all. We decided to use all wood only and chose 4 Manzanita twigs which we pre-soaked and boiled for about 3 days and nights.

We secured them together as one piece with metal ties so that it wouldn't fall apart during planting, maintenance or from the flow of the filters.

Next we tied Taiwan Mini Moss along with Anubias Nana Pangolino to the wood to fill in the unnatural looking gaps and cuts. Pangolino is even smaller than Petite and was available in tissue culture!

That tank is KIS to perfection, its simple and very basic yet it has that "I want to stop and look at this tank"

Before a member asks why.
They are the best thing you can add to a shrimp tank period . The do a lot of things and even have antiseptic properties . Lower Ph provide a food source for the shrimp by creating favourable conditions for micro growth and all shrimp seem to be attracted by them doesn't matter the species . You need a bunch to lower ph much but even in small quantities will offer benefits . They stay around for a while as well . Oh and did I mention free for the picking in most of the country ? While an introduced species from Europe they have established themselves over most of the country especially in the east and can be found around lake and waterway's and are widely planted in parks etc. A handful seems to work best in a 20 or 30 just a few will still offer benefit's though .